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The top 20 UK bucket list experiences include Giant’s Causeway and whale watching in Scotland

Spending the day at the Wimbledon tennis tournament, walking along Hadrian’s Wall and celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge are also featured.

A number of other quintessentially British experiences made it on to the list of must-dos too, including enjoying a clotted cream tea in Cornwall and staying in a thatched cottage in the Cotswolds.

Despite these dreams, the survey of 2,000 adults commissioned by Sykes Holiday Cottages, revealed just how unexplored the UK really is, as Brits are more likely to have visited France, Spain and Italy than England’s home counties.

According to the stats, more than six in 10 (63 per cent) have spent time in Spain, compared to just a third who’ve been to Surrey.

And more Brits have visited France (67 per cent) than Cornwall, Manchester and even London.

In fact, the same number of us have travelled across the globe to Australia as those who have been across the border to Aberdeenshire (16 per cent).

And although Giant’s Causeway tops Brits’ home-based bucket list, only a quarter of the nation have visited Northern Ireland, where it’s located.

Graham Donoghue, CEO at Sykes Holiday Cottages, said: “Despite a desire to tick off our British bucket list experiences, these results show how undiscovered the country actually is.

“Lots of us are more likely to get on a plane or a ferry and go abroad than take in everything the UK has to offer.

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“Although it’s brilliant to travel to other countries and cultures, many people would be surprised at how much there is to see just a hundred miles away from their hometown – Britain isn’t called great for nothing!”

The study also found that the average Brit has visited just 15 out of nearly 50 counties in the UK – although more than one in 10 (11 per cent) admit they’ve been to a maximum of three.

In comparison, the average person has travelled to 10 different countries around the world.

The north-south divide is also ever-apparent in Brits’ travel choices, as almost one in five southerners said they’ve never ventured up north.

And nearly half (48 per cent) of the population of Wales and Scotland haven’t ever been to each other’s country.

The decision to holiday abroad must be affecting our knowledge of the UK, as a tenth of Brits think Land’s End is in Scotland – when that couldn’t be further from its location at the very foot of Cornwall.

A further 12 per cent think the Brecon Beacons is in Scotland, and six per cent are even convinced that London is in the north west of the country.

Nearly one in four (24 per cent) of those polled via OnePoll.com admitted they’ve not had a summer ‘staycation’ in over five years, but the majority said they would like to spend more time exploring the UK.

Earlier this year, Sun Online Travel revealed how staycations are on the rise thanks to Brexit worries.

Several travel agents have said that their UK bookings are up.

But for those up for a bargain break away, there are lots of airlines currently having flight sales.